Andrew Taylor, University of Sheffield, UK

'This carefully researched and clearly written volume makes an important contribution to our understanding both of nationalized industries and of the trade union movement, and represents a complementary alternative to Ashworth's official history of the coal industry as a starting point for scholars and students.' Economic History Review '... a highly readable and informative account of the miners' union - from its birth to its virtual death... a fascinating picture of an important part of the lost world of Britain's industrial politics from the end of the Second World War to the privatisation of the coal industry.' Tribune

• Contents: Preface; Creating the new order; Inclusion or integration?; The politics of state capitalism; Conservatives and the NUM; The politics of industrial decline; The miners and Mr Wilson's New Britain; Bibliography; Index.

Andrew Taylor, University of Sheffield, UK

'This carefully researched and clearly written volume makes an important contribution to our understanding both of nationalized industries and of the trade union movement, and represents a complementary alternative to Ashworth's official history of the coal industry as a starting point for scholars and students.' Economic History Review '... a highly readable and informative account of the miners' union - from its birth to its virtual death... a fascinating picture of an important part of the lost world of Britain's industrial politics from the end of the Second World War to the privatisation of the coal industry.' Tribune

• Contents: Preface; Creating the new order; Inclusion or integration?; The politics of state capitalism; Conservatives and the NUM; The politics of industrial decline; The miners and Mr Wilson's New Britain; Bibliography; Index.

Andrew Taylor, University of Sheffield, UK

'This carefully researched and clearly written volume makes an important contribution to our understanding both of nationalized industries and of the trade union movement, and represents a complementary alternative to Ashworth's official history of the coal industry as a starting point for scholars and students.' Economic History Review '... a highly readable and informative account of the miners' union - from its birth to its virtual death... a fascinating picture of an important part of the lost world of Britain's industrial politics from the end of the Second World War to the privatisation of the coal industry.' Tribune

• Contents: Preface; Creating the new order; Inclusion or integration?; The politics of state capitalism; Conservatives and the NUM; The politics of industrial decline; The miners and Mr Wilson's New Britain; Bibliography; Index.